The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-05-04
GRANTS MEMORY.
1t Is COmmemorated by His Admirers at
Pittsburgh and Other
Places.
Mark Twain Scathingly Criticises the
Critics OF the Generals
Grammar.

The Americas Club of Pittsburgh COM
Gen. Grants birth by banqueting at the
Monongahela House of that city. The
tables in the banquet hall were arranged SO
as TO make the initials "U. g. g." and
were deliberately decorated with flower
pieces containing the initial letters of the
deceased Presidents name and the dates
1822-1687. Gov. Foraker occupied the seat
assigned Gen. Grant on the occasion of the
reception given to him on his return from
his trip around the world. After the tables
had been cleared Governor Foraker was
introduced and responded to the toast "U.
S. Grant" He sketched the life of
the General from early manhood to the
close of his honorable career.
That he was not third time called TO the
Presidency" said Gov. Foraker, was due to
considerations that had no relation whatever TO
him personally. 0n the contrary he was never
more securely intrenched in the affections of
the American people than he was at the very
moment when the historic fight of the BOG de-
termined followers ended in defeat at Chicago.
1t seemed as though no could not pos
sibly do anything more TO increase the
esteem and afectonate regard in which
he was held, but he could-and he did.
He was unwittingly involved and overwhelmec
by financial disaster, and practically at the
same time smtten by fatal nalady. The I'M
copquerable character of his nature was never
more clearly demonstrated than then. 1t would
be difficult to exaegerate the heroic fortituder
and true Christian patience he displayed in the
pathetic, unequal, but successful struggle that
followed. job cried out in his lamentations
and said, 'Oh that mine adversary had writ
ten book, as If that were. as it probably is,
the most surely fatal undertaking any ordi-
nary man can assume. Gen. Grants last work
was to write book. He had double pur-
pose TO serve. He sought not only to record
his recollection of the great events with which
he had been identified, but also TO provide
against want for the faithful and deserving
companion of his life and partner of all his joys
and sorrows. IL has been graphically said by
some one that as he sat at one side of the table
writing, Death sat at the opposite side impa-
tiently waiting and watching.
Without tremor or murmur, hedevoted
himself to his labor of love. A meroiful Provi-
dence heightened his days and gave him
strength until the last line and word had been
written, and his heart had been gladdened by
the assurance that both his purposes had been,
accomplished, and then, as gently as day into
night. he passed into eternity"
Roscoe Conklng sent letter of regret, in
which he said:
To join in paying honor to the memory OF a
man 50 illustrious and true to his country
and friends, so firm set. so calm and enduring
under calumny, suffering, and sorrow, would be
q mournful and grateful privilege. / should feel
at home in doing so with those who did not wait
for the Qualification of his death TO show them
the rugged grandeur OF Grant the honesty of
his purposes, and his reverence for the rights OF
every fe1low-cre ature.